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10.5.5 Scope of Future Research
Most of the research work carried out in this field is focused on simulator-based approach
rather than real-time environment. Implementation of EEC-based lightweight cryptography has proved that this approach is the most suitable approach for simulation environment and no work is concentrated on real-time environment. In future, the same work
can be extended in real-time environment by utilizing the optimized resources, that is,
speed, memory to mitigate the unauthorized access, and provision of strong security in
IoT authentication system.
10.6 Conclusion
The overall aim of this study is to provide new security solutions as a recommendation
to strengthen communication security. This chapter reviewed several security issues like
mutual authentication issue, sinkhole attack, third-party intrusion, target routing, and
spoofing, as well as device constraints such as less battery power, less memory capacity,
and less processing capacity. In IoT medical device communication, all the security issues
identified can be vulnerable to trustworthiness, or lack thereof, of the system. This chapter
gives new security solutions as recommendations that can be used to provide reasonable
guidance to IoT device communication development in future.
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Internet of Things (IoT)
10.5.5 Scope of Future Research
Most of the research work carried out in this field is focused on simulator-based approach
rather than real-time environment. Implementation of EEC-based lightweight cryptography has proved that this approach is the most suitable approach for simulation environment and no work is concentrated on real-time environment. In future, the same work
can be extended in real-time environment by utilizing the optimized resources, that is,
speed, memory to mitigate the unauthorized access, and provision of strong security in
IoT authentication system.
10.6 Conclusion
The overall aim of this study is to provide new security solutions as a recommendation
to strengthen communication security. This chapter reviewed several security issues like
mutual authentication issue, sinkhole attack, third-party intrusion, target routing, and
spoofing, as well as device constraints such as less battery power, less memory capacity,
and less processing capacity. In IoT medical device communication, all the security issues
identified can be vulnerable to trustworthiness, or lack thereof, of the system. This chapter
gives new security solutions as recommendations that can be used to provide reasonable
guidance to IoT device communication development in future.
References
Akanksha, J., 2016. Hackers breach Mass General vendor, compromise 4,300 records [online]. Available
from: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/hackersbreach-mass-general-vendor-compromise-4-300-records.html (accessed September 1, 2016).
Alexandra, O., 2015. FDA issues warning about hackable medical devices [online]. Available from:
http://www.popsci.com/fda-issues-warning-cyber-security-risks-medical-devices (accessed
September 1, 2016).
Al-Kashoash, H.A., Al-Nidawi, Y. and Kemp, A.H., 2016. Congestion-aware RPL for 6L0WPAN
networks. In 2016 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), pp. 1–6, April, IEEE.
Anonymous, 2006. Nihon communications solutions [online]. Available from: http://www.ncs-in.com/
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=485 (accessed September 1, 2016).
Anonymous, 2012. RSA Algorithm [online]. Available from: http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/rsa/contrib/RSA_Project.pdf (accessed September 1, 2016).
Anonymous, 2013. TinyOS open source operating system [online]. Available from: http://webs.
cs.berkeley.edu/tos/ (accessed September 1, 2016).
Anonymous, 2016a. IoT healthcare market worth 163.24 billion USD by 2020 [online]. Available
from: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/iot-healthcare.asp (accessed
September 1, 2016).
Anonymous, 2016b. Qualnet communications simulation platform [online]. Available from: http://web.
scalable-networks.com/qualnet (accessed September 1, 2016).
Anonymous, 2016c. Banner health identifies cyber attack [online]. Available from: https://www.
bannerhealth.com/news/2016/08/banner-health-identifies-cyber-attack# (accessed September 1,
2016).